The Sampson option. If we can't have it, nobody is going to have it. The further we travel along this timeline, the more we get to see the fail-safes and mechanisms that have been put into place to ensure that the dark Satanic mills cannot ever be dismantled. They've spent 300 years planning for 10,000 years of darkness. It's remarkable that so much progress has been made in 3.5 years.
But then they never thought she would lose.